Author: Louis Wu

Not exactly Halo-related, but it IS E3 week… Dolbex has written up an account of his first day at E3, complete with pics. You’ll find it on his Halo50k3 site.

Calvin and Halo looks at what to say (and what NOT to say) to get your 6-year-old to eat stuff.

Apologies that in all the Halo 2 hullabaloo, the Fan Fiction section has been neglected. After clearing out some stories that simply don’t belong (poetry with zero ties to the Halo universe, stories that don’t make the word minimum and are filled with garbage rather than actual story material to meet that minimum, duplicate submissions),…

Walshicus has updated his Halo Stellar Cartography section with new info from the recent Covenant Primer article on Bungie.net. There was just time to update in the pre-airplane madness here…

There’s a new gameplay clip available from both IGN AND Gamespot – how’s that for odd? The IGN version is slightly smaller (the hi-res weighs in at 7 mb, to Gamespot’s 8.4) and slightly lighter (on my monitor, ‘washed-out’ is more accurate), but they’re the same clip. Both are available in hi-res QT downloads for…

To all the people frantic because Joe Staten’s wording suggested that Halo 2 might be playable at E3… I just got a phone call from Dolbex, from the show floor. Halo 2 is behind closed doors only, being shown only to press and bigwigs. The average showgoer will not see ANYTHING. Rejoice or dispair, depending…

Marty O’Donnell tosses out a tidbit on our forum – evidence that the early part of the demo wasn’t scripted (for anyone who believed it was). As though we wouldn’t trust Bungie…

Woohoo! For folks waiting on the 3ds max 6 exporter for Blitzkrieg (exporters for max 3-5 have been out for a bit now), the wait is over! Swing on by Cortana.org to grab it. (Thanks, vatoloco!)

Gamespy has posted a very nice quality version of the E3 demo – Direct Feed, QuickTime, 480×360, 227 mb (zipped) It includes conference footage (Halo2-related) from before and after the actual demo, including the announcer’s revelation that the release date is tattooed on his arm. If that’s not enough, there’s an even HIGHER quality version…

The hefty content of the morning is an interview with Pete Parsons over at IGN. He does a lot of dodging… but he DOES answer a few questions, and there’s some really tasty info in there. Go check it out! Thanks, GhaleonEB.

Alucard found an image in the Gamespy Screenshot collection that’s more of a Wallpaper – but it’s an interesting image, nonetheless. Check it out!

One One Se7en continues the bird jokes – at least, I HOPE that’s a joke.

Halo: Resolution speculates that slang won’t change too much in the next 500 years.

I thought this was pretty clear, but from the quantity of mail we’ve received, apparently it’s not. You CAN preorder the Halo 2 Limited Edition box; it should be available almost anywhere games are sold. Two online biggies, EB Games and Gamestop, are both selling it. (EB Games is offering free 2-day shipping, so they’re…

El Bastard got to playing with Flash, and created a series of countdown timers, based on the newly published Halo 2 release date of November 9. His first attempt was here, but he made smaller ones here and here (I like the second one the best). Later in the evening, we heard from Jurriaan Wittenberg,…

Alex Edelman has written up a screenshot analysis of the new ODST shot on Bungie.net; you can find it on his [HOH] website’s Article Page. He adds that other shots will be analyzed as well.

Darksage has added both an audio transcript and a play-by-play descriptive transcript of the E3 2004 demo footage to the Halo Source Knowledge Base. If you had trouble hearing what you were looking at, or don’t have the bandwidth to download the movies, go check this out!

Reiyou has been working on a Halo RPG for a long time; it’s losely based on the d20 system. He’s finally put up a website about it. Go check it out!

Another Direct Feed movie – pretty good quality. This one’s from Gametrailers.com – thanks, Boneho Chane. WMP9, 14.3 mb. Update: And another from Gamershell – 13.8 mb (zipped – same 14.3 mb unzipped; it’s probably the same film), HUGE pipe. Also WMP9. Thanks, Recoil.

Thanks to the IRC channel, which stumbled across another free Shakeycam version of the E3 demo footage, this time hosted by Game Informer Magazine. It’s 105 mb large, in MPEG format. Quality is quite good, though the flash photography is a little distracting.